Alexei Navalny says he can breathe unaided a month after he was poisoned with Novichok 

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he can now breathe unaided a month after he was allegedly poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. 

‘Hello, this is Navalny,’ he said in a post on Instagram, appearing with his family in the Berlin hospital where he was flown for treatment after falling ill.

‘Yesterday I was able to breathe on my own all day,’ he said in his first social media post since he was poisoned in Siberia.

More to follow.  

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny – pictured in a new Instagram post – is being treated at a German hospital after being poisoned with Novichok